The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume Two - Couverture souple

Lovecraft, H. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1840226420 ISBN 13 : 9781840226423

Editeur : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The Horror in the Museum: Collected Short Stories Volume Two (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural)

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by M.J. Elliott.

“My eyes, perversely shaken open, gazed for an instant upon a sight
which no human creature could even imagine without panic,
fear and physical exhaustion...”

A wax museum in London boasts a new exhibit, which no man has seen and remained sane... A businessman is trapped in a train carriage with a madman who claims to have created a new and efficient method of capital punishment... A doctor plans a horrible revenge, using as his murder weapon an insect believed capable of consuming the human soul...

Within these pages, some of H P Lovecraft's more obscure works of horror and science fiction can be found, including several fantastic tales from his celebrated Cthulhu Mythos. No true Lovecraft aficionado dare be without this volume.

The majority of the stories in this edition appeared previously in The Loved Dead (ISBN 9781840226225)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1840226420
• ISBN 13: 9781840226423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible